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Charlotte Allsion
May 13, 2011
Charlotte Allison 89 of Washington died Friday may 13, 2011 in the Washington County Health Center. She was born as the only child of the late Claude L. and Nevada Lichtenstine Snyder on October 5, 1921 in New castle. She was a 1939 graduate of New Castle High School. She worked as a telephone operator and secretary for Bell Telephone...
Frank Richard Stopka
May 12, 2011
Franklin Richard "Rich" Stopka 64 of Washington died Thursday May 12 2011 in the Washington county Health Center. He was born in Washington on June 1, 1946 a son of the late Joseph and Mary Lillie Stopka. He was a 1965 graduate of Bethlehem Center High School. He then joined the United States Army where he served as a diesel...
James A Shingle
May 5, 2011
James A"Pappy". Shingle 94 of Amity died Thursday May 5 2011 in his home. He was born March 31, 1917 in Martins Ferry Ohio a son of John and Ann Hantis Shingle. He was a driver for Nickles Bakery in Martins Ferry and Washington PA for many years until his retirement in 1978. Mr. Shingle was a member of Lower...
Raymond J Fetsko
Apr 24, 2011
Raymond J. "Buck" Fetsko 79 of Marianna died Sunday April 24 2011 in the Presbyterian Senior care-Southmont. He was born in Marianna on February 7, 1932 a son of the late Joseph and Mary Ottena Fetsko. He attended West Bethlehem schools. Mr. Fetsko worked as a repairman in Marianna mine #58 for 34 years until his retirement in 1993. He...
Walter R Pfeiffer
Apr 14, 2011
Walter Richard Pfeiffer 70 of Marianna died Thursday April 14, 2011 in his home. He was born in Brackenridge on January 22, 1941 a son of Walter Jacob and Ida May Stauffer Pfeiffer. He attended The Presbyterian University Hospital Pittsburgh, where he received his degree for respiratory therapy, being one of the first 1000 nationally registered in the United States....
Marcell Jones
Mar 25, 2011
Marcell Jones 74 of marianna died friday march 25, 2011. He was born March 15, 1937 in Norfolk, VA to Dorothy Jones Sutherland and Jody McGlone. He is the oldest of four children at the age of 17 he joined the United States Air Force which he served for 20 years until he retired in 1975 at the Barksdale Air...
Margaret E Cox
Mar 25, 2011
Margaret E. "Libby" Cox 89 of Amity died Friday March 25, 2011. She was born in Sycamore on October 6, 1921 a daughter of Charles R. and Efiie Mae Iams Wood. She was a Ninevah High School graduate. Mrs. Cox worked as a clerk at GC Murphys in Waynesburg and Grants in Washington. She was a member of Amity Methodist...
Earl Gilpin
Mar 25, 2011
Earl G. Gilpin 72 of Fredericktown died Friday March 25 2011 in Monongahela Valley Hospital. He was born in Marianna on February 2, 1939, a son of the late Harry T. and Wilma F. Meyers Gilpin. He was a 1957 graduate of Bethlehem Joint High School. Mr. Gilpin Worked as a Custodial II at California University until his retirement in...
James Greene
Mar 24, 2011
James R. "Tex" Greene 43 of Marianna died Thursday March 24, 2011 in the Washington Hospital. He was botn in Waynesburg on January 16, 1968; a son of the late James Stewart and Sara Jane Trump Greene. He was a 1986 Bethlehem Center High School graduate and then attended Western Career and Technology Center to become an LPN. He worked...
Edward Jestat
Mar 22, 2011
Edward J. Jestat 77 of Marianna, died Tuesday March 22, 2011 in Washington Hospital. He was born in Marianna on July 24, 1933 a son of the late Edward and Anna Geer Jestat. Mr. Jestat was a 1951 graduate of West Beth High School. He worked as a coalminer for 38 years in Marianna Mine #58. He was a member...
Arthur L Randall, Sr.
Mar 19, 2011
Arthur L. Randall Sr 83 of Washington died Saturday March 19 2011 in the Donnell House after battling poor health for the last several years He was born in Washington on march 22, 1927 a son of the late William E. and Gladys Arbuckle Randall. He attended the old Manifold School, Laboratory Elementary School, and Trinity High School before enlisting...
William T Howden
Feb 22, 2011
William Thomas Howden 94 of Washington died Tuesday February 22, 2011 in the Washington Hospital. He was born in Scenery Hill on October 30, 1916 a son of Thomas and Eliazabeth Gump Howden. He was a 1935 graduate of Trinity High School. He also attended the Carnegie Technical Institute. Mr. Howden worked as an electrician for Marianna mine #58 and...
Helen M Sabolsky
Feb 22, 2011
Helen M. Sabolsky 91 of Parma Ohio formerly of Marianna died Tuesday February 22, 2011 in Season of Life Hospice, Parma, Ohio. She was born December 9, 1919 in New Salem PA a daughter of John and Ann Dozen Valentic. She was the beloved wife of Peter Paul Sabolsky who died October 31, 1984. She attended Sts. Mary and Ann...
Jean M Hartley
Feb 1, 2011
Jean M. Hartley 88 of Amity died Tuesday February 1 2011 in the Washington County Health Center. She was born in Amity on December 10, 1922 a daughter of the late Thomas L. and Gayle Walker Mankey. She was a 1941 graduate of Trinity High School. On June 23 1944 she married Lloyd Richard Hartley who is deceased. Mrs. Hartley...
James Jackson Cox
Jan 30, 2011
James Jackson Cox, age 68 of Washington died Sunday January 30, in the Paramount Senior Living Center in Bethel Park. He was born September 23, 1942 in Washington the son of James H. and Elizabeth Huffman Cox. He attended Trinity High School and was a member of the Amity Methodist Church. He was a glassblower for Ball Glass Co. in...
Floyd English
Jan 25, 2011
Floyd English 91 of Marianna died Tuesday January 25, 2011 in his home. He was born in Byesville Ohio on October 20, 1919, a son of the late Earl and Lucille Foley English. He spent most of his life in Marianna working as a coal miner. He first entered the mine with his brother at the age of 15 and...
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